Patty Jenkins Quotes
My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
-
My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
-
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
-
I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
-
Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
-
There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
-
Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
-
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
-
I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
-
I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
-
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
-
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
-
My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
-
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
-
We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
-
I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'
-
Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.
-
This is my job. I just wake up, and I train.
-
I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.
-
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.
-
A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
-
My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
-
Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right.
-
My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.
